No matter how much envisioning, planning, organizing, analyzing we do, nothing will change until we take action! It sounds simple enough and we all know it to be true, so what holds us back from doing it? For many of us, the reason we don’t take action has to do with the fear of failure. It might be because the fear we have of failing is more powerful than the satisfaction of success. Or we may even be afraid of success itself, because of the responsibilities or pressure that may come with it. The fear of change and uncertainty can also be a factor. Sometimes we mask those fears in never ending planning and overthinking, causing us to never take the first step. The thing for us to realize is that failure is a part of success. So, as we can imagine, failure will be a part of the learning process on the road to financial success too. We have to accept that as part of the process, so that we can get started. Once we start, we can learn from mistakes, make corrections and keep moving forward. But we have to start for anything to happen.
Despite what many people might think, it doesn’t take motivation to take action, it’s actually the other way around! Motivation comes from taking action and once we’re motivated by our actions, we pride ourselves to take more action. A simple example from my own experience is when I don’t feel motivated to engage in my daily workout. What I’ll find is that by making the decision to take action by getting myself into the gym, once I get started, I end up putting in more effort than I intended prior to walking in. Taking action is what gets us motivated and discipline is what gets us to take the necessary action. The things that motivate us by taking action are the things we feel good about when we achieve our goals, whether it’s praise, recognition, fame, money, etc. Discipline is the habit or practice of doing what we know we should do even when we don’t want to do it. So, we need to find whatever it is that motivates us and become disciplined to take the necessary actions for us achieve our financial goals. Our discipline will get us started, our actions will give us results and our motivation will keep us going.
Taking action is the one most important thing that separates the highly successful people from the everyday people. Taking action is what causes life changes to take place and without it nothing happens. It’s not always easy to take those steps, sometimes we have to push past our comfort zone or do it in fear. The things to keep in mind to help us to take that first step is, why we want to reach our goal, how it will feel to accomplish our goal and the way accomplishing our goal will improve our situation. By now we understand that just knowing what, why and how is not enough, we must do. So…let’s get disciplined, let’s find what motivates us to want to become financially free and let’s DO IT!
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